The Uttar Pradesh cricket Association (UPCA) uses the Green Park stadium on the basis of a memorandum of understanding it signed with the UP government. The government owns the land, but according to the MoU, the stadium and its maintenance are the responsibility of the UPCA.
Meanwhile, the pitch for this Test match got a ‘satisfactory’ rating.
The ICC rates pitches and outfields for all international games on a scale from very good to unsuitable: very good, satisfactory, unsatisfactory and unsuitable. Places are awarded one demerit point for an unsatisfactory grade and three for an unsuitable grade. If any ground receives five or more demerit points in a consecutive five-year period, it is suspended from hosting any international cricket for 12 months.
The rest of the venues that hosted India’s 2024-25 international season did not receive any censure from the ICC. Of the pitches on which India played its five Tests, four (including the three that hosted the recently concluded series against New Zealand, in Bengaluru, Pune and Mumbai) earned “satisfactory” grades, while the surface of Chennai’s MA Chidambaram Stadium , which hosted the first Test against Bangladesh, got a ‘very good’ tag.
